FINANCIAL LITERACY OF STUDENTS AT SLOVAK TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES

Currently, not even the average citizens can not to live at least without basic knowledge relating to financial instruments and financial transactions that are part of financial literacy. It is generally known that the financial literacy of the Slovakian population is below average. For the first time on this fact had pointed the Slovak Banking Association and paid attention to this problem resulting based on a survey in 2007. Subsequently greater attention has been paid not only from financial institutions sides but also the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic had elaborated the National Standard of Financial Literacy and gradually have begun to implement financial education at different levels. The Slovak Banking Association has been running for nearly 10 years. The main aim of the paper is to find out how the level of financial literacy of technical focused students has changed during the years.